Holograph, signed.

Joseph Ricketson was relieved to learn from Deborah Weston that her brother, Warren Weston, is out of danger from his severe illness. There is more sickness now in New Bedford than has ever been known there before. Joseph Ricketson gives news about various people, largely in respect to their health, and also about parties. He refers to Deborah Weston's pleasure in remodelling her house and his own experiences in that line. He tells about a celebration on the first of August with a colored military company from New York, who were invited by Mrs. Arnold to her mansion. Joseph Ricketson constrasts Mrs. Arnold's "true nobility of soul" with the "cottonacracy of Boston." Rodney French took one of the colored company to church "to the great discomforture [sic] of the good orthodox society." Fanny [Ricketson?] recieved from Mr. Tappan a wooden spoon used on board the slave ship Martha.